Opinion
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Health Care Tax Credits Could Help Solve Nation’s Uninsurance Problem
Opinion -Support is growing for a proposed solution to the rising number of uninsured Americans: a federal tax credit for purchases of health insurance. -
Advertising Prescription Drugs: Is It Wasted?
Opinion -Anyone who watches television or reads popular magazines knows the amount of money spent on advertising for prescription drugs has increased dramatically in the past few years. -
Major U.S. Employers Unite to Sponsor Low-Cost Health Insurance
Opinion -A new program designed to provide affordable health insurance coverage to the uninsured beginning in September 2005 was introduced in late January at the World Health Congress in Washington, DC. -
Advantages Offered by National Health Access
Opinion -The Health Care Policy Roundtable, a project of the HR Policy Association, has identified six main advantages of the National Health Access program it announced in January. Access to appropriate care. -
10 Years of GOP Tax Policy: Good News and Bad
Opinion -Editor's note: This is the second of two installments excerpting The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later: Smaller Government or Business as Usual? to be published this month by the Cato Institute. -
Patients Want More Control Over Their Health Care
Opinion -The rapid advance of medical science over the past century means patients now have more therapies available to them than ever before. Historically, patients relied on physicians to provide them with information about medical developments. -
Commentary: No Child Left Unmedicated
Opinion -Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical firms are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs. -
Teacher Union News: Disputed Elections and Missing Funds
Opinion -The Washington Teachers Union and United Teachers of Dade (UTD, Florida), currently under administration by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), are enduring accusations of vote fraud by losing candidates for the office of president in elections -
March 2005 Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Colorado * Florida * Iowa South Carolina * Utah COLORADO More Colorado Students Exercising Right to Choose During the 2003-04 school year, nearly 36,000 Colorado students attended classes outside their own school district. -
Study: Rules and Regulations Are Paralyzing U.S. Schools
Opinion -A new study from the bipartisan legal reform coalition Common Good found U.S. schools are greatly over-regulated, in many cases to the point of paralysis. -
NYC Seeks to Tax, Fine Online Cigarette Buyers
Opinion -New York City residents who purchased smokes over the Internet are facing huge fines and garnishment of their wages for failing to pay city cigarette taxes. -
Illinois Contractors Fight Union-Friendly Order
Opinion -An executive order issued in 2003 by Illinois Gov. Rod R. -
Fixing America’s Health Care System
Opinion -Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer by Sally C. Pipes, with a foreword by Milton Friedman $14. -
Prescription Drug Pricing Attacked, Defended
Opinion -At a January meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) in Chicago, critics of the prescription drug industry unleashed a barrage of attacks on the way the industry prices its product. Most of the criticism was off the mark. -
Fine-Tune NCLB, or Go Boldly for Choice?
Opinion -As President George W. -
Bandwidth for the People
Opinion -Broadband stands to be a tremendous boon to economic growth. Consumers benefit from new ways to acquire information, enjoy audio and video entertainment, monitor remote locations, receive medical care, and buy items ranging from books to cars. -
British Study Casts Doubt on Benefits of Class-Size Reductions
Opinion -A recent British study has cast serious doubt on the commonly held notion that smaller class sizes can by themselves improve student achievement. -
Bush Calls for Historic Social Security Reform
Opinion -President George W. Bush used his annual State of the Union speech on February 2 to call for sweeping changes to the nation's Social Security system, a call that has been met with approval, doubt, and opposition from lawmakers and interest groups. -
Coalition Forms to Promote Federal Protection of State Tax Incentives
Opinion -More than 60 businesses, business groups, and state and local officials have formed a coalition to back federal legislation to protect the right of states to offer targeted tax incentives for economic development. -
Competition Improves Government Performance, New Studies Show
Opinion -Two important new studies show competition improves the efficiency of government departments. -
Deputy Education Secretary Hickok Resigns
Opinion -Deputy Secretary of Education Gene Hickok resigned from the U.S. Department of Education effective at the end of January, after four years of efforts to bring historic changes to the culture of American K-12 education. -
Doing Business in New York is a Costly Matter
Opinion -The advantages of doing business in New York, such as access to technology and a strong labor force, do not offset the disadvantages of high costs of employee benefits, energy, taxes, and other expenses, according to a new "Just The Facts" data -
E-Commerce Stokes the Wine Wars
Opinion -On December 7, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will help determine whether producers of wine can sell their product to a national market over the Internet and ship it directly to customers. -
How Do I Fire an Inept Teacher in New York City Schools?
Opinion -This flowchart is from “Over Ruled,” a study from Common Good. The full flowchart, involving 83 steps and legal considerations that can take a year to complete, is available at http://cgood.org/burdenquestion-6.html.
